7–11 Jul 2025
Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC)
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Applications of CMB receiver technology

7 Jul 2025, 09:50
15m
Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC)

Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC)

Durham University South Road Durham DH1 3LS
Talk The Interplay between Technology and Astronomy The Interplay between Technology and Astronomy

Speaker

Mark McCulloch (The University of Manchester)

Description

Simons Observatory UK is a state-of-the-art cosmic microwave background observatory with hardware currently under development at various institutions in the UK, and telescope infrastructure being assembled in the Atacama Desert in Chile. In this talk I will outline the SO:UK receivers and show how some of the microwave, superconducting and cryogenic technologies developed for CMB observatories can be applied beyond radio astronomy. Some of the areas that I will discuss include: dark matter detection, quantum computing and quantum sensing, and medical imaging.

Primary author

Mark McCulloch (The University of Manchester)

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